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I was also hoping to find out what the insane stuff Rockstar overruled was. Even the link (which required registering) had nothing - bah.

Watching people play games is a pretty tough sell. I know they (sort of) make televised poker a thing, but that was more emphasizing personalities and human interactions between players. But standing there watching people watching a screen is never going to have a huge audience - there's no...

I'm not holdout hope, but if they can make a 3rd person perspective not actively terrible, and jesttison the "on camera interview" interactions with NPCs, that would go a long way to making me actually want to buy this.

I just found the entire "moral choice" thing annoying, with manipulative, false choices presented by obnoxious, unreasonable people. I understood it was a game and thus a reason why there is no "right" answer all the time (or any time), but the choices just felt deliberately binary and...

Too many old-school games were hard just to be hard, because otherwise there was really no game there. Cheap attacks, impossible-to-predict-so-you-have-to-play-though-multiple-times-regardless-of-skill scenarios and the like were dropped for a reason. Once players had the option of declining...

I fully respect the idea of looking into little-seen places and making movies out of unusual and non-mainstream topics. There're too many clones and retreads. But what possible train of thought could lead anyone to think that *this* story was worth telling anyone, much less making an expensive...

If, as expected, the kid is a minor and his parents have no idea how he spends his free time, really, what are they going to do? Any punishment he can expect is barely a slap on the wrist, and the exposure he's already received is probably the best thing that's ever happened to him. If he's an...

Of course. And in FPS games the hacks and aimbots would go away if they made it easier to get around and to aim. People only cheat because it's the logical result of design flaws? Bull. People cheat because it's easier than effort, and they want their shinies without having to earn them.

But isn't the most important thing about multiplayer having a lot of, well, players? If you have a small install base, the quality of your multiplayer won't matter. So it sounds like they relied on hype and controversy to move a lot of boxes to create a platform for the part they actually cared...

I really don't care for the "small unit tactical simulator" feel of "classic" RPGs. I want to focus on one person - you know, playing a role - and have the other people be background, supporting characters. Having to constantly pause and control four people at once felt like playing pen and...

My big problems are the lack of peripheral vision, the inability to have any idea where your feet/legs are and what they are doing (or pretty much any part of your body except your straight-ahead eyes and hands). FPS also tend to rely on superhuman turning and spinning ability to compensate for...

Korea conquering the US? Not someone actually powerful like China or Germany or Russia or even Japan, but (North) Korea? Why not Madagascar or Greenland? I know North Korea is a safe boogeyman (i.e., they won't be able to mount a PR campaign to protest), but most reports say they can't even feed...

I find the group-vs-individual part misleading - it's simply a question of what "role" means in RPG. In a JRPG, it's like being an actor - hit your marks, get your lines right, and you win based on how someone else wrote it to be. If the story itself is compelling and the fights well-done, you...

I do think a lot of GMs overvalue how much people appreciate their willingness to do the work and feel almost like the players are obligated to help flesh out their fourth-rate fantasy novel. The second the players feel like passive observers you lose so much. Sure, if it really is a great...